BAYESWATER UP-DATE NOVEMBER 2009

The fishing has been a bit tricky on both lakes lately (the past 3 weeks) even though there are loads of fish showing.

 

One of the syndicate members caught a 25-14 mirror as his first fish from the day ticket lake a few weeks ago.  He followed that up with out 12 more fish.

 

Another syndicate member had the linear at a high 24lb and there have been one or two other good fish out to over 20lb but in general the day ticket has been a bit slow.

 

I’m not sure what they are feeding on but I walked round the other day and they were bubbling and showing in a couple of areas, looking well catchable. I know a few waters that are fishing very patchy, I just wish ours wasn’t one of them.  Maybe it just needs a different approach.  A couple of winters back I had load of fish on swim feeder maggots, 49 fish in 4 days.

 

Two of the lads I work with fished the last weekend, in all the storms and terrific wild weather.  Although they lost one or two, they didn't catch anything.  I followed one of them, dropping into the same swim and missed one (I was away from my rods) lost another after a good scrap and finally landed the last take of the evening, result a nice 18 pound mirror.

 

I had one rod out on maggots which was constantly attacked by the roach and rudd and the other 2 rods were on double 15mm boilies.  The first take was on Scopex squid, the next 2 takes were on a new bait we are calling iC 1.  All 3 takes were not long after I throwing sticked about 20 baits on top of the area's. I did this about every 15 minutes on one rod and had 2 takes on that one, the other rod I only sticked some bait out once but had a bite almost instantly.  It does get them going for sure.

 

My theory is that when you first get there you chuck out leads, often with PVA bags on, maybe 2-4 rods, then a few free offerings and then we sit and wait for them to come back, usually not feeding anymore until we get a bite, or not.  If they do come back then we catch one or two, but usually only re-doing one rod at a time, not all 4 again.  If they don't come back straight away though I think they can be tempted with a scattering of bait, or even a spod full or two.  Think about it, if we were float fishing we would constantly keep feeding, even if we wasn't catching but when we are carping we mostly just sit and wait, why?

 

To be honest I reckon next time I fish the lake I'm taking 20mm baits.  If the splash of 15mm baits can induce 3 bites in 3 hours than 20 millers could be the ones.  I'll be using double 20's on the rigs as well.  The fish are in there, that’s for sure, its up to us to catch them, there will be a method to do it.

 

Over on the syndicate lake it’s also a bit slow but there has been a new lake record at 37lb 14oz, a fish that dropped down to 30lb and ounces after spawning.  There’s also been a 36lb 12oz. out which was last out, last year at 32lb.  Other than 2 x 28lb and a 23lb I don’t think there's been anything else out for the past 3-4 weeks.  Again they are showing a bit but just eluding the anglers.

 

Still you have to go to catch them and there are less angler’s about now so there will be less caught, but I’m sure there is still some good catches to be had.

 

3 things if you are fishing less, please e-mail me pictures for the gallery, please read the shooting notice on the web site and please read the piece on locking the gates.  These are all pleases but please “DO”

 

Don't give in yet!!  

 

Gary